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                        Win - O - Dex
                 A Quick Operational Guide!
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Well, for those of you who are heavily into Windows and are
asking, "Where the !@#$%" is the Online Help?", I have 
included this small file to clear up any potential problems
or questions.

Although I could have included the standard Windows help
system (gee, and I just LOVE doing all that extra work
and stuff <grin>), the truth of the matter is, I designed
Win-O-Dex to be so intuitive and easy to use that a Help
System would be unnecessary. While I feel that, for the
average computer user, Win-O-Dex IS intuitive, it is a bit
different from most standard Windows applications.

Where Are the Menus?

Well, ah, there AREN'T any menus!!! Everything in Win-O-Dex
is button-controlled. A summary of the buttons follows:

A-Z Buttons      Used to find the first record having a
                 last name starting with the letter.

New              Click this button to add a new entry. This
                 MUST be clicked BEFORE you start to enter
                 the item!!!

Save             Clicking on this button saves the record
                 on screen, whether it was a new record or
                 an old one being updated.

Delete           This will delete the displayed record from
                 the database.

Find             Clicking here brings up the Query Screen.

Next             Displays the next record in a query. So, if
                 you had clicked on 'B', clicking on Next
                 would display the next 'B' record.

Previous         Same as Next, only going backwards! <grin>

Print            Prints the ENTIRE form, to include buttons,
                 icons, etc. on the printer. Think of this
                 as a 'Print Screen' key.

About            Displays the 'About' screen, which details
                 version and registration information.

Telephone
Buttons          Will dial the telephone number in their
                 section (personal or business). Configure
                 your comm information first!! Note that you
                 have the ability to 'dial 9' first. This is
                 great in an office environment where you
                 have to dial 9 to get an outside line.

Note Button      Lets you add any notes you wish to the
                 person's record.

Computer
Button           Brings up the Communications Configuration
                 screen. If you plan on using the dialer,
                 you must tell Win-O-Dex the Com Port(1or2)
                 that your modem is on, and whether you
                 have pulse or tone dialing service.

Printer
Button           Lets you print all the records in the
                 database, or brings up a query screen to
                 print only selective records.

Out Disk
Button           Allows you to export all or selected
                 records to an ASCII file. You may either
                 export ALL records or some records. You
                 are displayed an EXPORT MENU before you
                 export the records.

In Disk
Button           Allows you to import records into the database
                 from an Ascii file. Like the Export function,
                 you will be displayed an IMPORT MENU - the only
                 difference being that you may not import notes
                 into the database, and that all imported text
                 is changed to upper case.

Export/Import
Menus            Here's where WINODEX really shines! You may be
                 VERY selective as how you EXPORT/IMPORT records.
                 Either function allows you to deal with Comma
                 delimited, carriage return delimited, or enclosed
                 quote/comma delimited formats. An example of each
                 is:
                     Comma Delimited:  Johnson,Fred,Q
                     Carriage Return   Johnson
                     Delimited      :  Fred
                                       Q
                     Quote-Enclosed    "Johnson","Fred","Q"
                     Comma Delimited

                 YOU decide what to export or import. For example, say
                 you needed to dump the names and home addresses of all
                 your entries to a comma-delimited ASCII file. Making
                 things a little complicated, the program that will
                 make use of the data expects the zip code as the first
                 field. No problem! Just click on all the fields you need
                 (note that the spin buttons change color when you go
                 and activate a field). Then, just click on each field's
                 position button to determine where it is dumped to the file.
                 For example, you click on home zip code and last name, and
                 choose zip code to be first in the file and last name to
                 be second. For a comma-delimited file, the result is:
                         01111,Johnson

                 Again, YOU decide what you wish to save, and in what
                 format. You may also choose to put the data into
                 upper/lower case first. Please note that if you
                 decide to export notes, they will be added to the end
                 of the record automatically.  Importing is just as simple!

Help Note
Button           Displays this help text.

Stop Sign
Button           Exits Win-O-Dex

See how simple everything is???

The Query Screen

This is where you can get fancy with Win-O-Dex. By
specifying a field, an action, and a comparison,
you can query the database to find what you need.
Some examples:

1. You want to find all the records with the person's
   first name starting with 'M':
   Field to Compare: First Name
   Action          : * Pattern matching
   Comparison      : M

2. You want all the people who were born after 01/01/60:
   Field to compare: BirthDay
   Action          : > Greater than
   Comparison      : 01/01/60

Everything is fairly straightforward, and should be pretty
easy to figure out.

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